With its extensive programme of public events in Florence, Berlin and elsewhere, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for lively, international and interdisciplinary academic exchange. The Institute makes its research findings accessible to the public in exhibitions and publications. Through calls for papers, research fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to promote collaboration with academics from around the world.

With its programme of events and exhibitions, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for academic exchange. Through its calls for papers, fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to foster academic collaboration.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a research institute of the Max Planck Society dedicated to the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean sphere in the global context. It is particularly committed to supporting, advancing and networking international young academics.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a Max Planck Institute dedicated to researching the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean in the global context.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz positions itself as a laboratory of basic research in art history in dialogue with other disciplines. This includes questions related to the professional ethics of art history, the relationship between ethics and architecture, and the concern for cultural heritage. Projects at the Institute look e.g. at transcultural dynamics in the Mediterranean, European and global context, at urban and visual spaces, the history of knowledge and museology, photography and its archives, art history and ecology, the work of Leonardo da Vinci, image/language constellations, image and law, and with discourses on image and object.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz positions itself as a laboratory of basic art-historical research. This includes questions related to the ethics of art history and the relationship between ethics and architecture, and the concern for cultural heritage.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz issues a range of individual and serial publications, through which it makes its research findings accessible to the public. The Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz is one of the oldest and most prestigious art-historical journals worldwide. Research reports provide information about the Institute's activities and about the academic projects of its staff and fellows.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz issues a range of individual and serial publications, as well as a specialist journal and research reports, through which it makes its research findings accessible to the public.

In its function as archive and work tool, the Library, with its collections and working conditions, forms the most important basis of academic study for members of the Institute and guests. Both historical and current specialist literature from various disciplines is available for consultation by an international community of researchers. With its elaborate cataloguing and indexing system, the Library also makes a significant contribution towards assuring the quality of the research conducted at the institute.

In its function as archive and work tool, the Library with its collections forms the most important basis of academic study. Both historical and current specialist literature is available for consultation.

The Photothek is one of the most important collections of documentary photographs of Italian art and architecture. As a research facility and laboratory, it plays a leading role in the international and transdisciplinary debate on the function of photo archives in 21st-century research and societies. Its daily tasks, such as photo campaigns, cataloguing and digitization, are inseparably linked with its scholarly activities. With its projects, conferences, workshops and publications, the Photothek makes an active contribution to the academic life of the Institute.

The Photothek is one of the most important collections of documentary photographs of Italian art. As a research laboratory, it contributes to the international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of photo archives in the 21st century.

With its extensive programme of public events in Florence, Berlin and elsewhere, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for lively, international and interdisciplinary academic exchange. The Institute makes its research findings accessible to the public in exhibitions and publications. Through calls for papers, research fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to promote collaboration with academics from around the world.

With its programme of events and exhibitions, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for academic exchange. Through its calls for papers, fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to foster academic collaboration.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a research institute of the Max Planck Society dedicated to the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean sphere in the global context. It is particularly committed to supporting, advancing and networking international young academics.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a Max Planck Institute dedicated to researching the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean in the global context.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz positions itself as a laboratory of basic research in art history in dialogue with other disciplines. This includes questions related to the professional ethics of art history, the relationship between ethics and architecture, and the concern for cultural heritage. Projects at the Institute look e.g. at transcultural dynamics in the Mediterranean, European and global context, at urban and visual spaces, the history of knowledge and museology, photography and its archives, art history and ecology, the work of Leonardo da Vinci, image/language constellations, image and law, and with discourses on image and object.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz positions itself as a laboratory of basic art-historical research. This includes questions related to the ethics of art history and the relationship between ethics and architecture, and the concern for cultural heritage.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz issues a range of individual and serial publications, through which it makes its research findings accessible to the public. The Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz is one of the oldest and most prestigious art-historical journals worldwide. Research reports provide information about the Institute's activities and about the academic projects of its staff and fellows.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz issues a range of individual and serial publications, as well as a specialist journal and research reports, through which it makes its research findings accessible to the public.

In its function as archive and work tool, the Library, with its collections and working conditions, forms the most important basis of academic study for members of the Institute and guests. Both historical and current specialist literature from various disciplines is available for consultation by an international community of researchers. With its elaborate cataloguing and indexing system, the Library also makes a significant contribution towards assuring the quality of the research conducted at the institute.

In its function as archive and work tool, the Library with its collections forms the most important basis of academic study. Both historical and current specialist literature is available for consultation.

The Photothek is one of the most important collections of documentary photographs of Italian art and architecture. As a research facility and laboratory, it plays a leading role in the international and transdisciplinary debate on the function of photo archives in 21st-century research and societies. Its daily tasks, such as photo campaigns, cataloguing and digitization, are inseparably linked with its scholarly activities. With its projects, conferences, workshops and publications, the Photothek makes an active contribution to the academic life of the Institute.

The Photothek is one of the most important collections of documentary photographs of Italian art. As a research laboratory, it contributes to the international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of photo archives in the 21st century.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was one of the primary representatives of Abstract Expressionism of the New York School of Painting. His Color Field Paintings created from the 1950's on, and for which he is famous, are still celebrated today.

Throughout his life, Rothko dealt with philosophic, aesthetical and historiographical issues, by means of which he constantly redefined and questioned his own position as an artist. His ideas have recently been published in "The Artist's Reality" edited by his son Christopher Rothko, but written in the late 1930s. Rothko's thoughts, published in this text, as well as his later works, reveal his involvement with and examination of early Italian painting, particularly that by Giotto di Bondone (1264-1337). His numerous trips to Italy not only allowed him to admire the works of Giotto in situ, but also made him an enthusiast of Fra Angelico.

Regarding Giotto, Rothko was especially interested in his ability to organize space and action by means of color, exemplifying the concept of painted "tactility": Similarly to Giotto, who succeeded in rendering different materials as well as a whole range of human conditions in a tactile way, Rothko tried to intensify his constellations of colors which were to be experienced by the viewer as figurations of action and emotion. Throughout his life, Rothko insisted that he was not an abstract painter. He controlled the hanging of his works and referred to his paintings as "murals", analogical to the Italian technique of fresco painting. Rothko's involvement with medieval and Renaissance Italian works is the focus point of this exhibition. Thus, the presentation of his canvas "Reds no. 5" (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, 1961) alongside Giotto's large-sized "Death of the Virgin" (ca. 1310) and his "Crucifixion" (ca. 1315) is meant to lead the viewer to contemplate the relation between the two artists. The relationship between Renaissance and Modern art established in Rothko's thinking and painting is thus the main subject of the exhibition. At the same time, the exhibition space corresponds and relates to Rothko's artistic conception of space: Rothko imagined chapel-like spaces "in which the traveller or wayfarer could contemplate one detail of a painting hanging in a small room".

In 1957 he wrote: "I am interested only in expressing the basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on […]. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them."

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